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Flashmaps: Main Arteries into New York City & Important Telephone Numbers

- Peter - Thursday, May 14th, 2009 : goo

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I've gotta admit, I'm a sucker for those colors and lines

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Although we've got now, I kind of wish some of those "Recorded Information" lines still
worked. Anyway, I tried a few of the numbers just for fun... Suicide Prevention was someone's
mobile voicemail box. Stock Market Prices was a fax machine, World Series was a dead number
and Time of Day was a recording explaining that I had reached a non-working number belonging
to the US Government...









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Shawno: 14th May 2009 - 04:53 GMT

And no area codes on any of the numbers. Something tells me there's more than one area code now for New York City.

Peter: 14th May 2009 - 04:58 GMT

all manhattan landlines are , then and now... though now you actually have to dial it.

Tom: in the 70s there was only one area code per city.

Peter: 14th May 2009 - 05:59 GMT

in nyc, manhattan has always been 212, brooklyn/queens/bronx 718, etc... i even had a 212 mobile once.

pierre: 14th May 2009 - 08:30 GMT

347- New York City
718- New York City
917- New York City
212- Manhattan Only
646- Manhattan Only

Peter: 14th May 2009 - 13:12 GMT

917, 347 and 646 are primarily nyc mobile area codes.

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marber: 16th May 2009 - 02:22 GMT

info is out of date. Pan Am no longer exists. EAL no longer exists, etc

Peter: 16th May 2009 - 08:25 GMT

indeed! the maps from this series are from 1972...

Throwback: 19th May 2009 - 02:12 GMT

NYCs telephone system would be interesting to explore... There's a lot of history in that as well, from the old electromechanical switching systems operating under Bell to the rich phone phreaking history of people trying to explore and abuse the network... There's some weird telephone #s out there today still, of interesting recordings and such. Some sound like they're running on some old equipment too, from like the 70s and 80s. Nice flashback

Peter: 19th May 2009 - 02:18 GMT

lol, i had a dialer when i first moved to nyc... they changed from that system about a year later, though.

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